Newsletter Archives

• Hard drives – still pretty S.M.A.R.T.

  Posted on December 27, 2021 at 02:44 CST by Ben Myers • Comment in the Forums

  HARDWARE

  

  By Ben Myers

  In my last article, Breaking and entering with Linux: What you see (AskWoody 2021-09-27), I said that there were issues with the S.M.A.R.T. system built into the firmware of both old-time spinning hard drives and solid-state drives (SSDs).

  S.M.A.R.T. (Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology, hereinafter referred to simply as “SMART”) provides real-time recordkeeping about the health of your hard drive. It is all about system reliability, of which drives are a major element and a significant point of failure.

  Read the full story in the AskWoody Plus Newsletter 18.50.0 (2021-12-27).

  Hardware Hard-disk health, Hardware, HDD diagnostics, Newsletters, SMART

• ‘I hit my laptop ’cause I got angry’

  Posted on June 1, 2020 at 01:10 CDT by Tracey Capen • Comment in the Forums

  LANGALIST

  By Fred Langa

  Here’s how to check your PC’s health after it’s suffered a physical impact — for any reason!

  Windows 10 has four built-in tools you can use to find and fix some impact-related drive errors. But you may need to employ several unfamiliar and even obscure options to use them to best effect.

  Read the full story in AskWoody Plus Newsletter 17.21.0 (2020-06-01).

  LangaList AskWoody Plus Newsletter, Hard-disk health, Hard-drive troubleshooting